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April 7, 2011 1966 April 7: "Tritiya. Today I am staying with Paul. I cooked food and dined with him and Sakar. They liked the foodstuff very nice. Circumstances seem to be favorable. Paul promises to organize. He is enthusiastic. Let us see. He attended the morning class punctually." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 20:24 | 1967 April 7: "I am very glad to learn that Lord Jesus Christ has approved our activities. I love Lord Jesus Christ as good as Krishna; because He rendered the greatest service to Krishna according to time and circumstance. Now work with more enthusiasm and we are sure to be successful in our great mission." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 20:20 | 1967 April 7: "Just you write this drama very nicely in poetry so that they can be sung in Western tone all over America and Europe and staged everywhere. A nice drama on Lord Caitanya will be a great stride for our mission and I hope it will help us financially a great deal." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 20:18 | 1970 April 7: "So far my preaching work is concerned, I have now got twenty-eight temples in different parts of the world. I hope you will understand this Krishna Consciousness movement is a major revolutionary renaissance of Vedic social, cultural and religious life." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 20:17 | 1972 April 7: "YOUR MATERIAL FORMULA WILL NOT HELP US. ONLY OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE CAN HELP US. I HAVE NO APPROVAL FOR ANY OF THESE PLANS. DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING. - BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 20:01 | 1973 April 7: "The report of book distribution is very pleasinge. I am especially pleased that you are introducing my books as textbooks in the colleges. We must attract the educated young men and women in your country so that in future there will be many strong leaders to keep our Krishna Consciousness Movement strong." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 19:56 | 1974 April 7: "The printing of the new book appears excellent and this new publication has given me unlimited bliss. That you are profusely distributing the book all over is the crowning success of our movement. We will conquer Europe with these books. I am planning to go to Paris soon and at that time I shall be able to join you." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 19:55 | 1974 April 7: "Because of the inability of present managers I will be traveling there to make a decision for the permanent leadership of the centers. Stop the bickering and conflicting camps. If everyone is strictly chanting at least sixteen rounds daily, reading my books and observing the regulative principles then management will be at your finger's end." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 19:54 | 1975 April 7: "To know everything means whatever his Guru knows, that much is "everything." If one follows the orders of Guru then he knows everything. But a disciple should not think that he has become perfect. He should always be ready to be chastised - that is perfection. As soon as he thinks he has become perfect, he's nonsense number one." Prabhupada Lectures letters | 19:53 | April 6, 2011 1966 April 6: "Dwitiya. Today I took meals at Dr. Mishra's place. He is not happy that I am gradually shifting to Paul's place. Today received one letter from Library of Congress Washington. It is good news. At evening there was meeting. There were seven boys and girls. All attended the meeting carefully. Some of them brought Rice, Atta, and fruits." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 19:12 | 1968 April 6:"Yesterday I saw two pictures of modern abstract arts. There was nothing to impel my Krishna Consciousness. So, if you want to be a great artist in that way, I will pray that Krishna may save you." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 19:09 | 1968 April 6: "The engagements sound very nice, and especially it is good if they pay us. We are not cheap, we are distributing bona fide process, so for traveling far distance they should especially pay us something." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 19:06 | 1968 April 6: "The late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri was very much respectful and he met me three times. He was to help me in so many ways, he was my friend but he died. So far his quotation is concerned, it is on the leaflet with picture on it; the one where he is receiving the Bhagavatam from me." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 19:05 | 1968 April 6: "So far Allen Ginsberg and Denise Levertov's study of Bhagavad-gita is concerned, that is completely nil. Their appreciations are nonsense but if you and MacMillan think they will actually increase the sale of the book, then never mind, you can add their appreciation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 19:00 | 1972 April 6: "YOUR MATERIAL LEGAL FORMULA WILL NOT HELP YOU. ONLY OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE CAN HELP. I HAVE NO APPROVAL FOR ANY THESE PLANS STOP HE HAS NO AUTHORITY FROM ME TO MANAGE ANYTHING REMOVE HIM YOU REMAIN DON'T LEAVE AGAIN STOP - BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI" Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 18:58 | 1974 April 6: "By Krsna's and Baladeva's mercy a sweet water well has been found about ten feet away from the front part of our land. This news has pleased me very much. Now build a big well 100 feet deep there and fix a pump. Now that the tamal tree is blooming so nicely you may let it stand; do not cut it down, but let it grow." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 18:54 | 1974 April 6: "I accept your invitation and I may stay no more than four or five days each in Paris, Geneva, Stockholm and Rome, and then to Germany at three or four centers there also. Then I must go to Australia returning to India for Janmastami." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 18:50 | 1974 April 6: "We are repeatedly asking everyone to study Bhagavad-gita as it is. There are so many gurus, so many guides but they do not know the aim of life. Don't become learned and interpret differently from Bhagavad-gita. Everything is there." Prabhupada Lectures letters | 18:48 | April 5, 2011 1966 April 5: "Pratipada. The whole day I was at Paul's place. He is a nice boy. I prepared Paratha he was pleased to have it. He is anxious to follow the principles of Vaishnavism. I shall help him to my best. In the evening we held kirtan together. He is hopeful. No income and no expenditure." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 14:17 | 1969 April 5:"You have been feeling that you are not doing nicely, but this is not a fact. Your efforts are especially nice and pleasing to me. Actually, Sankirtana Party is our main business, continue to propagate Krishna Consciousness through Sankirtana Party, and surely you will come out fully successful." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 14:16 | 1970 April 5: "Teaching our students the pronunciation of the Sanskrit verses in the Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, etc. will be another effect of transcendental sound vibration. You may be required to move from center to center to teach this verse vibration so that in each center they will become very expert in pronouncing the Sanskrit verses." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 14:13 | 1970 April 5: "You need not become a scholar. You require simply to understand Sastras, Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, etc. and chant Hare Krsna Mantra as much as possible. As soon as we try to be scholars, our devotional line will be slackened. These points are to be kept in view always." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 14:09 | 1972 April 5: "How all of you GBC members have met and decided such big big issues without consulting me? I consider both the meeting and the resolution irregular so there shall be no change and our society shall manage as before." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:06 | 1974 April 5: "There is no question of a devotee becoming ostracized. Who has been ostracized? The symptom of a devotee is that he is kind. There is no question of ill treating one of our own Godbrothers nor should you allow such neglect to go on." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 13:59 | 1975 April 5: "You are giving your forefather's hard-earned money and I don't want to see it spoiled in any way. So you can turn the property over to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. You are sincerely trying to please Krishna, and therefore He is giving you all intelligence how to do it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 13:56 | 1975 April 5: "Thank you for your invitation. I wish to hold classes on Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam for one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening. I do not know if gentlemen there will spare so much time. If not two hours, then I shall hold one hour class. I wish to see how people there appreciate our activities." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 13:55 | 1974 April 5: "What is that guru-bhakti? Guru never says that. If any guru says that, then he is not guru. He is a rascal, not guru. Rascal cannot be guru and guru is not rascal. So this is a question. I am inquiring from you. Why people accept this imitation?" Prabhupada Lectures letters | 13:50 | April 4, 2011 1966 April 4: "Poornima. Today I have replied the letter of State Department regarding visit to the President. I went to see Mr. Bogart. His publisher Mr. Laughton interested in publishing Srimad Bhagwatam. Then I came to Paul's place. There was meeting and Kirtan, Hari Katha." Prabhupada Jounal :: 1966 letters | 14:13 | 1971 April 4: "All our principles must be followed to derive spiritual benefit. That is our method. If a doctor prescribes medicine and diet and the patient follows both, then he will get well. If he follows in part, he may not." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 14:11 | 1971 April 4: "Just work sincerely and follow the regulative principles. We are respected everywhere on our purity platform. This should be maintained." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 14:07 | 1971 April 4: "I have got confidence in you because Krishna has given you special talent for chanting. I enjoyed your chanting so nicely that I thought myself immediately carried to Vaikuntha." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 14:04 | 1971 April 4: "Here we are having massive Sankirtana Festival where 20,000 to 30,000 people are attending daily. Many important men are interested. We will have our permanent center here soon." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 14:01 | 1972 April 4: "Simply by agreement you have changed everything, so what is this? Inform the other GBC members that there shall be no change within the society." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 13:56 | 1972 April 4: "If my right-hand men are making such big big changes without consulting me then what can I do? There should be no change. Both the meeting and the resolution are irregular." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 13:53 | 1974 April 4: "It is not possible to accept any big scheme. We now have to import men from foreign countries. We are not going to make any big scheme anywhere else unless we have sufficient manpower." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 13:45 | April 3, 2011 1969 April 3: "Although it resembles the material way, our separation is completely different. Separation is simply another feature of meeting. In the spiritual world, separation is eternal, and meeting is also eternal." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 21:02 | 1969 April 3: "Don't do anything whimsically. The direction comes through the Spiritual Master, and any one who abides by the order of the Spiritual Master, he is perfectly surrendered soul. So stay there." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 20:57 | 1969 April 3: "You should take the indication given by Krishna: the press is already there, the press worker is coming, and the scholar has joined. Don't you see the indication by Krishna?." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 20:55 | 1972 April 3: "N.B. Regarding changes made in GBC zonal management. I do not favor these changes. Tell them to stop everything. Why they have done this without consulting?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 20:54 | 1972 April 3: "There is no other literatures like ours in the world, and this information, 'Here is God, just see Him,' this clear understanding of God is not available anywhere else but from our books." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 20:53 | 1972 April 3: "There is no other literatures like ours in the world, and this information, 'Here is God, just see Him,' this clear understanding of God is not available anywhere else but from our books." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 20:53 | 1973 April 3: "Today is Tuesday so I hope that the court case will be heard. If the judge takes seriously that the land must be given to one of us, that will be a great success." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 20:48 | 1973 April 3: "Regarding the house at Puri – the place of Srila Prabhupada. I understand that Sripad B.D. Madhav Maharaj is also eager to purchase, so I do not wish to make a competitive price." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 20:46 | 1974 April 3: "If we cannot utilize the land then why purchase it at such expenditure? Self help doesn't mean Rs 10,000 spent monthly." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 20:43 | 1974 April 3: "Why are the cows suffering from no good shelter? I sent $5,000 and then $4,000 previous to that, for construction for the cows. Why have you not built them something solid?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 20:41 | 1974 April 3: "If somebody can recite like storm, it is to be understood he has perfected himself. No. Don't be in hurry. Just explain one word. That is the defect of the modern approach. These reciters do not explain even the first line of Bhagavatam, 'janmady asya yatah.' It requires many years to understand that one line and they jump over, 'rasa-lila.' That has spoiled the whole atmosphere." Prabhupada Lectures letters | 17:46 | April 2, 2011 1968 April 2: "So far my name is concerned, there is no need of adding Tridandi Goswami, but simply have it as A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, as it is already done in my other books, it will be continued. I do not like for Sri Bhaktivedanta Swami, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami is shorter, and nicer." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 14:33 | 1969 April 2: "The present issue is excellently done. People in your country are very much receptive to new things so we must go on presenting these completely novel spiritual ideas. Reprint another 10,000 copies minimum." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 14:30 | 1970 April 2: "When you require money for printing my books, inform me and I shall send you the check. I just want that my books may be printed somehow, somewhere; that is all. So do it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 14:21 | 1972 April 2: "These fair-skinned Americans and Europeans are like angels coming to Krishna Consciousness and very soon the whole world will become filled with such angels. So continue sticking very tightly to our pure standards then Lord Caitanya's prediction will very soon be realized." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:16 | 1972 April 2: "Guided tours for tourists is nice but sight-seeing is secondary. We may advertise sightseeing to attract them, but main thing is to give them nice prasadam and instruction, then sell them our Krishna Book. Then you will be successful with this program." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:13 | 1972 April 2: "You all should be very active to increase. It is the best field in the world for distributing our books, as good or better than America. So preach wherever you go and make this traveling sankirtan a great success, a greater success, than in America." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:05 | 1972 April 2: "You Western boys and girls are becoming angels but if we are not very careful to always stick to the point of regulative principles and purest standards of high living, then everything will spoil very quickly and the whole show will be a farce." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:00 | 1975 April 2: "You are executing the duty of a sannyasi and you have taken my request to heart and you are now preaching in so many nice ways. This is very satisfying to me. Now continue and become more and more expert. Thank you for your donation of $1,000." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 13:56 | April 1, 2011 1961 April 1: "After the Congress I wish to make an extensive tour of Japan, China and America for preaching this culture of Human spirit. Lord Krishna, Lord Buddha, Lord Christ, Hazrat Mohammed, Acarya Sankara, Acarya Ramanuja, Lord Caitanya, all lived for enlightening men on Human spirit." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 17:00 | 1966 April 1: Dwadasi. One Mr. Pop came to see me. He saw the books and took one copy of the 1st Part and paid $6.00. Mr. Greene paid $5.00. Income book & contribution $11.00. I passed the night at Paul's place. It was nice. In the evening the meeting was experimentally held at Paul's 94 Bowery Place. The attendance was four." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 16:27 | 1970 April 1: "Deity worship is for old and experienced students; it is not good for new students to be given sacred thread. This Deity worship is exclusively for advanced students. Yes, staunch faith in Spiritual Master and Krishna makes one perfect in spiritual understanding." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 16:22 | 1970 April 1: "If George Harrison gives us a place at his house, just like John Lennon gave us a place in his garden, then you can start a temple there. But unless there is a tangible program, do not divert your attention. Regarding George's center, if he opens it, I shall give him direction how to do it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 16:17 | 1971 April 1: "Everything must be done with clear intelligence according to the Parampara revealation of the Absolute Truth and Krishna will give you good understanding for this purpose. Our Krsna consciousness is so nice. By painting, your love of Krishna will become mature." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 16:11 | 1974 April 1: "Your program to meet her Majesty and Prince Charles will be a great opportunity. If the leading personalities cooperate we can have the whole Parliament as Krishna conscious men including her Majesty the Queen." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 15:56 | 1974 April 1: "My next program is to reinstate the Vedic divisions of catur varnyam. If England and America as well as France and Germany can understand this philosophy there will be a great theistic revolution which can counteract the atheistic philosophy of Marxism." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 15:54 | 1975 April 1: "Encourage Siddhasvarupa to continue to speak as much as possible and give him all facilities. Whenever there is some question or if he speaks something incorrect, you may humbly correct him or if need be, I can also give correction by mail. His booklet is very nicely done." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 15:45 | |
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